MUS 185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Indentured Servant, Cariso, Calypso Music
6 Apr 2016
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Early european colonists: spanish irst, then french and english. Today: 40% african; 40% indian; 20% other (arabs, chinese, other euros) An essenial, deining element of trinidadian culture. Annual, pre-lenten celebraion; ends on ash wednesday. Bacchus: god of wine , more like the god of serious partying. The french had come at the request of the spanish government. 1797: briish take control of the island. Carnival implicaions: increased split between upper and lower classes. Tension building: throughout the 19th century, tension between the. Briish authoriies and the lower ( jamete ) class mounts. Masquerade bands have been a tradiion in t&t carnival since the. Revelers dress in costume; certain characters are tradiional. The chantwell (or chantuel ): a mas" band singer/leader. Precursor to the calypsonian or calypso singer. Calypso: the popular song music of t&t. Term comes into use in late 19th/early 20th century. Some calypso music was performed on the road, for carnival parades and fesiviies.
